The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-12-08
MARIETTA MATTERS.

uleS.
Misses Camp are spending few days
in Chattanooga.
DR.. L. P Earle, of Birmingham, Ala,
spent couple Of days in the city last week
Miss Tallulah Towers returned from
Rome last Friday
Mr.. Will. S. Cox has gone to Rome to
work IN furniture factory.
Mr.. Campbell Wallace, Jr., of Atlanta,
has bought Col. R. f. Maddox's farm at
Canton, paying $4,000 for the same.
Judge Brown, on Thursday evening
adjourned Cobb Superior Court over TO
Wednesday the Nth OF December.
Mr. Robert E. Lawhon, known by some
as Emmett Lawhon, is with A. Y Leake
the popular grocer.
"A large number of visitors from other
towns are attending the Conference this
week.
Three large five cent bars of soap for
dime at McCutcheon's.
-Bedsteads, Bureaus, Chairs Mattresses,
&c, AT Hlrsch's.
Two new and handsome cottages for
rent on Lemon street. Also, for sale, lot
OF sash, blinds and doors For terms apply
TO Il n. HOLLAND
The chickens in the coops now Just
throw their legs up ready to be tied-the
town is full of Methodist preachers. They
have to submit to the inevitable
Only seventeen days until Christmas
and already Preparations are being made by
number OF households for proper enjoy
ment Of the occasion.
A number of subscriptions expire this
month. Those who fail TO renew will have
their names erased We cannot run a news
paper on the credit system
If you are not a subscriber to your town
and county paper, you are not displaying
that interest that ought to characterize a
public spirited citizen
"A good lot of shoes bought cheap
Nessrs A. A. Fletcher Il Co.'S stock.
Will selrthe same way at McCutcheons
The place to buy shoes of all sorts and
sizes at live and help live prices at Nc
Cutcheons.
Ladies cloaks and wraps cheap at
H.RsCH's.
The best beef in the city at Stephens
Brothers market
Mr. c. B Lackes, OF EIlijay, takes Mr.
Gentry's place as telegraph operator at this
place and train dispatcher OF the Marietta
x North Georgia Railroad.
Mr. Cabe Walton, chief engineer of the
Marietta It North Ga Railroad, says the
road will be completed to Murphy by the
ist OF March next Only three miles more
to grade to reach that point
The North Georgia Conference has
about $50 delegates in attendance, bat the
hospitality of the citizens of Marietta is
equal to the emergency, and all are cared
fol-
Three bales Of cotton caught on fire at
the NJ. q n Ga B. R. depot Thursday
morning The fire department responded
but was not needed, as the fire was extin-
guished.
If you want to save cost, you had better
pay Us a. once. HlRsCH e. Sons.
Place your orders for meats OF all kinds
with Stephens Brothers
In the Grand jury Presentments of last
week, the increase of property on the Tax
Receivers Book in the county should have
been $lS5.5l8 The total amount of taxa
bic property for this year is $4635, 399 co.
Go to Stephens Brothers for tender
steak. Telephone "A.
800 over coats at Hirsoh'G,
The North Georgia Conference has
grown to such an immense size, that a new
apportionment should be made and new
Conference created to be called the Middle
Georgia Conference, thus having three ter
ritorial Conferences ID the state. The
body is getting so large as to be unwieldy
and OF difficult matter to be provided for
in a small town This matter should re-
ceige the serious consideration OF the body
in session here this week. aud steps taken to
bring about this needed revision and divis-
ion OF the South and North Georgia Confer
ences
--MARRIED-M Miss Eugenia Wilson, daugh-
ter Of CapS j VI Wilson, of this place, was
married to Mr. G. R. Walton at the family
residence on Atlanta street last Thursday
noon, December LIST, Rev d. L. Buttoph
officiating, The bride is one of Marietta
tairest aud most amable daughters, while the
gentlemanly groom is chief engineer OF the
". & n. Ga K r. They left on the after
noon train for brief visit to Augusta. We
extend our congratulations and wish for the
happy couple every blessing that mortals
are capable Of enjoying Invested of all adj
verse clouds and frightened by the sunshine
Of prosperity.
One hundred and fifty gallons new
crop Sorghum made by Robert A. McCol-
lum, at forty cents per gallon, at McCuich-
cons. Try it.
The citizens of Marietta seem to take
but little interest in municipal matters vet
there is nothing more important to the vel
fare of the city, than to have its affairs in
safe, reliable hands. A wise and eco
nomical management of the interests of the
CITY, its streets, its finances, its police, &c,
should Interest every voter and tax payer
sufficiently to arouse him to an active par
ticipation in the selection Of officers whose
administration will rebound to the credit
and prosperity Of the town. The election
takes place next Tuesday for Mayor and
Aldermen whose terms will be for two
years
Judge Brown dismissed the CREDITOR
bill filed in by the Atlanta National Bank
against Messrs. A. A. Fletcher & Co, thus
sustaining the mortgages given to preferred